Want to buy an assault rifle in Florida? No problem
In the aftermath of the horrific shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, we learned that even if someone is on a terror watch list, they can still legally purchase a firearm. Then he talked to reporters in the Oval Office, where he blamed a toxic mix of extremism and easy gun access for the attack.
That thing known as “gun control” is too big and too divisive for Congress to address at one sitting. “The newspaper called for such weapons to be banned and chastised gun lobbyists for “[standing] in the way of such logical changes”.
Sean Davis, co-founder of the influential conservative blog The Federalist posted an essay Monday and argued that the assault weapons ban is a stupid idea pushed by stupid people.
“We’ve got to do everything we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them”.
More discussions about gun laws will take place in the senate and congress following the Orlando tragedy.
At the time, the demonstrators backed Obama’s call for a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and background checks for all gun sales.
“I’ve got to tell you for twenty-five years now, I’ve believed that we should not be selling automatic weapons which are created to kill people”, Sanders said.
Banning guns will work just as well as banning drugs or alcohol did. “And France’s strict gun control didn’t stop the two attacks in Paris, committed with fully-automatic rifles and grenades”.
This terrorist was pretty committed to carrying out these acts, said U.S. Senator Marco Rubio at a news conference, believing that Mateen would still carry out the attacks even if guns were made illegal. News stories displayed here appear in our category for US Headlines and are licensed via a specific agreement between LongIsland.com and The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization.
When Omar Mateen embarked on his deadly rampage at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday, he carried the same weapon used in some of the worst mass murders of recent times.
Bill O’Reilly surprised many on Tuesday when he said that new laws were “definitely needed” as a response to the Orlando shooting.
Mateen was killed in a shootout with police.
Some states have tried to impose their own restrictions on the weapons or sought measures that would at least slow down shooters using them. Clinton contended that both measures could help lower the number of mass shooting deaths in the US.